Asbestos

a variety of hornblende, which itself is cla ed by Dana as a synonym or subdivision of emphibole. | Asbury, Francis, the first Methodist bishop consecrated in America, born at Hands worth, Staff ords hire, Aug, 20, 1745. When 16 years old he became an itinerant Wesley an preacher, and in 1771 he was sent as a mi ionary to America, where he was consecrated in 1784. During a long life of almost ince ant labor it is estimated by his biographer that he traveled about 270,000 miles (mostly on horseback), preached about 16,500 sermons, and ordained more than 4,000, | ager 3 He died in Richmond, a.,, March 31, 1816. | Asbury Park, a city and popular summer resort in Mon mouth county, N. J.;.on the Atlantic Ocean and the Pennsylvania and Central of New Jersey railroads; 6 miles 8. of Long Branch.